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North Western geep 4206 takes a break from switching the quarry west of Downtown Elmhurst on a nice evening in August 1986.
This morning, I had a few cancellations in my schedule that allowed for some time to swing by the BNSF yard in Topeka, KS. As I pulled up, I noticed the local switcher (BNSF 2909) running back towards the business car shops to pick up a cut of cars. That, is when things got interesting.
Once they had pulled the trainset onto the main, it's seen here backing into the yard along the Shunganunga Creek, where the cars were backed into the business car shops, where it all started!
A Lehigh Valley Rail Management crew brings a long cut of double stack cars into the River Yard for interchange to NS.
The train is led by a trio of EMD switchers:
LVRM 19 MP15DC (ex-CI/SB/PBNE 19)
LTEX 1517 SW1500 (ex-PC/CR 9556)
LVRM 1146 MP15DC (ex-CSXT 1146, LN 5036)
Two former BN units still wearing green, a SD60M and a GP39E, do their switching in Joliet, IL with the L-CHI102.
A GP9-slug-GP9 trio (CN 7038, CN 221 & CN 7250) is busy moving cars on a siding off of the Côte De Liesse spur. This line is usually switched at night, so it was nice to run into this movement which always runs as an extra.
"And you can all just go to hell.
Now, get out."
= ))) Just kidding, he's not a bad guy. He IS a fighter though.
Hunter doesn't belong to me.
He belongs to _Mmmk of Singapore!
Burlington Northern #240 is seen at Cicero yard switching intermodal cars on June 15th, 1987. I never was a big fan of the BN and didn't live close to it at all but my dad and I did wander around Chicago a lot so I did hit some spots.
BN SW1200 #240 was built by EMD as CB&Q #9282 in July of 1965. Loco may still be around dressed as BNSF 3509.
North Shore Line trolley/battery motor 456 switches just east of CTA's Skokie Shop in February 1962. Photo by Ed DeRouin, from my collection.
Metra F59PHI #75 is being used as a shop switcher to position #90 and #402 in position for a publicity photo.
CPKC G95 with CMQ 3817 & CP 4509 for power is lifting a car from Total Fuel, one of two clients on the Lasalle Loop Spur. In the background are cars for the other client (Flesichmanns Yeast).
A well aged CN geep switches the American Chemical Service plant in Griffith, Indiana. This is on all former C&O of Indiana rails. The "J" took over this business once Chessie pulled out. ACS getting a switch seems to be a rarity these days. So, while out on a morning bike ride, I was more than happy to her them banging cars around over here. I headed right over. Shot with a Pentax 67 on Fuji Velvia 100F. All this...located right off of the Oak Savannah bike trail, for your foaming pleasure.
Switch engine idling at Cheongnyangni Station in Seoul, South Korea.
Nikon F801S and Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 on Kodak Portra 400.
L&C #16 switches cars at the Chester Wye.
#16 used to be the Chester-Richburg Turn, but had its role switched to a yard switcher with the creation of train #12.
Notice the horn on #3820, a rare Nathan M3.
Amtrak's Lorton, VA switch crew takes a quick break to pose for the photographer during their afternoon duties building the Auto Train. In 1985, it was apparently no problem for an un-ticketed 12 year old and his grandfather to wander around the Auto Train facility with a camera.
Great Lakes Central does not normally run on the weekends, but an extra OSTN was called on this Sunday to pick up a large cut of cars from the CSX interchange at Ann Pere in Howell. Now back in Owosso, the crew switches out the train, blocking it out for the next day's northbound. Leading the train is GLC's newest repaint, SD40-2 #382, followed by veteran GP35 #390 and GP38-2 #396.
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MEPI near the end of my R&N vacation has the same consist as it had on day 1 with a pair of GP30's (GP39RN's) homeward bound near Falls. The high hillsides in some backgrounds are still nearly bare but riverside could almost be described as post-peak. By this time of the year the sun angle situation was becoming the biggest problem when photographing the return trip of the Mehoopany job.
On duty at 8am in Pittston they make a round trip to the huge Proctor & Gamble plant in Mehoopany and usually stops to switch the R&N's transload warehouse at Ransom (not far from the west end of Coxton yard) on the way back. This stretch of former LV mainline is now known as the Susquehanna Branch.
Lighting is very tough on the morning westbound (PIME) but the afternoon return trip west (MEPI) becomes a southbound train 3 times during it's return trip as it follows bends in the adjacent Susquehanna River.
One of the last DB Köfs in freight service can be found in Schorndorf, Germany. They use this little guy to switch cars loaded with appliances in and out of the Bauknecht warehouse because the curve radius is too tight for any three or four axle engine. Here the Köf takes three empties from the warehouse down the spur toward the yard.
When Takagi does manage to threaten coax little brother Kaji to go home, he makes sure he gets his tea served to him for his trouble ;)
Conductor Rick Eyler protects the shove as Norfolk Southern train K80 drops a Southern Railway covered hopper at the Cumberland Valley Cooperative.
There are many visual clues in the Chama rail yards to mislead you into thinking that we're fifty years or more in the past. July, 2013.
Maine Switching Services hauls CSX Sappi-4 up the steep grade into the Sappi mill complex on 6/16/2024.
LTEX GP9u 1585 was added at the mill crossing, since extra power was required to make the hill. The track splitting off from the mill lead runs to a small 7 track yard, the slurry tracks, as well as two spurs into the warehouse. The is another yard to the north of the mill as well as some storage tracks in the former log yard.
Maine Switching Services
Train: Sappi-4
6/16/2024
Hinkley, ME
Sappi Mill Lead
An ex-Penn Central hopper (LANX 7117) is being switched in the Pointe St-Charles Yard, with GP9's CN 4129 & CN 7229 doing the honours.
I love this collage. I passed by it in a car for years and never realized how achingly beautiful it is until I walked by it on a quiet Sunday and stood and really looked at it. Made of thousands of old telephone switching parts it was created in 1961 by Anthony Heinsbergen and is located at 420 S. Grand on what is now the AT&T building.